Nested bird and micro-habitat assemblages in a peatland archipelago

Oecologia

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 361-370

  Calme S ^a,b   Desrochers, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b EL COLEGIO DE LA FRONTERA SUR   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Bird; Conservation; Nestedness; Pattern of distribution; Peatland

Indexed keywords

BIRD; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; NESTING;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033055493     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004420050737     Document Type: Article

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